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William James Remar (born December 31, 1953) is an American actor. He has played numerous roles over a 40 year career, most notably Ajax in The Warriors (1979), Albert Ganz in 48 Hrs. (1982), Dutch Schultz in The Cotton Club (1984), Jack Duff in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Richard Wright in Sex and the City (2001–2004), and Harry Morgan, the father of the title character, in Dexter (2006–2013). Since 2009 he has done voice-over work in ads for Lexus luxury cars.[1] Remar studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.

James Remar
Remar at the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards
Born	William James Remar (1953-12-31) December 31, 1953 (age 68) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Atsuko Remar ​ (m. 1984)​
Children	2

Remar's more recent roles include Frank Gordon in Gotham from 2016 to 2019, and from 2018 to 2021, Peter Gambi in Black Lightning.

Career

Films

Remar has spent the majority of his film career playing villains. He portrayed the violent gang member Ajax in the cult film The Warriors (1979),[2] and the murdering sociopath Albert Ganz in the hit 48 Hrs. (1982). Both films were directed by Walter Hill. Remar also played real-life 1930s-era gangster Dutch Schultz in The Cotton Club (1984).[3]

In contrast to these roles, Remar starred in the film Windwalker (1980) as the young Cheyenne Windwalker, for which he spoke his lines in the Cheyenne language.[4] He also portrayed a gay man in the film Cruising (1980). That same year, Remar had a cameo in the Western The Long Riders (1980) in a bar fight scene with David Carradine.

He was the star of the 1986 film Quiet Cool (1986) and was cast as Corporal Hicks in the science-fiction/horror film Aliens (1986), but because of drug related issues he was fired and replaced by Michael Biehn shortly after filming began. At least one piece of footage featuring Remar made it into the final version of the film: when the Marines enter the processing station and the camera tilts down from the Alien nest, though Remar is not seen in close-up.[5] He is also filmed from the back as the Marines first enter the compound on LV-426 and when "Hicks" approaches the cocooned woman, again filmed from the rear so the viewer is unable to tell it is Remar and not Michael Biehn.[6]

He played Quill, one of the main villains in The Phantom (1996).[7] He appeared in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), the sequel to the film Mortal Kombat (1995), taking over the role of Raiden from Christopher Lambert. He then followed this with a role in the direct-to-video science fiction movie Robo Warriors (1996). Other films include Psycho (1998), in which he played the patrolman,[8] Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), Wedlock (1991), Boys on the Side (1995), The Quest (1996), Rites of Passage (1999), Hellraiser: Inferno (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Fear X (2003), Blade: Trinity (2004), The Girl Next Door (2004). He played a brief role as General Bratt in the prologue of Pineapple Express (2008). He also had a role in the horror movie The Unborn (2009), alongside C.S. Lee, who portrays Vince Masuka in Dexter. He also played the father of Olivia Grey in "Feed" (2017).

Remar was featured in the film X-Men: First Class (2011) and voiced the Autobot Sideswipe in the film Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), replacing André Sogliuzzo.[9] He was also cast in the heist film Setup (2011) and starred in the film Arena (2011).

Remar played two different, unrelated characters in Quentin Tarantino's film Django Unchained (2012): Ace Speck and Butch Pooch.[10] He starred, alongside Emma Roberts, Lucy Boynton, and Lauren Holly, in the thriller film The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015).[11]

Television

Remar's television appearances include the series Miami Vice, Hill Street Blues, Sex and the City (as the on-again, off-again boyfriend of Kim Cattrall's character),[12] Tales from the Crypt, Jericho, Third Watch, Justice League Unlimited, and Battlestar Galactica.[13] He also appeared as a possessed mental patient in The X-Files ninth-season episode "Dæmonicus".[14] He starred as Tiny Bellows on the short-lived television series The Huntress (2000–2001).[15] He appeared in the miniseries The Grid (2004) as Hudson "Hud", the love interest of Julianna Margulies' character.[16] He had a recurring guest role in the 2006 television series Jericho on CBS. Remar guest-starred in the CBS crime drama Numbers, playing a weapons dealer who later turns good and helps the FBI.

From 2006 to 2013, Remar co-starred in Dexter on Showtime. He was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Dexter Morgan's adoptive father, Harry Morgan.[17]

In 2010, he played guest roles as Giuseppe Salvatore in The CW series The Vampire Diaries[18] and as James Ermine, a general for Jericho, a black-ops military contractor, on FlashForward.

He also voiced Vilgax in the animated television series Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, replacing Steve Blum. He guest-starred in Private Practice in 2010, playing a physician named Gibby, who works with Doctors Without Borders.[19] On July 23, 2017, Remar was cast as Peter Gambi on the superhero drama Black Lightning.[20] The series would run for four seasons from January 2018 to May 2021, Remar's Gambi a series regular for its entirety.[21] He would then be cast in a recurring role on The Rookie as Tom Bradford, Tim’s father.[22]

Personal life

In 1984, he married Atsuko Remar.[23] They have two children, Jason and Lisa.[24][25]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	On the Yard	Larson
1979	The Warriors	'Ajax'
	Blond Poison	Eric Leeder
1980	Cruising	Gregory
	The Long Riders	Sam Starr
	Windwalker	Young Windwalker
1982	Partners	Edward K. Petersen
	48 Hrs.	Albert Ganz
1984	The Cotton Club	Dutch Schultz
1986	The Clan of the Cave Bear	Creb
	Band of the Hand	Nestor
	Quiet Cool	Officer Joe Dylanne
1987	Rent-A-Cop	Dancer
1989	The Dream Team	Gianelli
	Silent Like Glass	Charly
	Drugstore Cowboy	Gentry
1990	Tales from the Darkside: The Movie	Preston	Segment: "Lover's Vow"
1991	White Fang	'Beauty' Smith
	Wedlock	Sam
1992	The Tigress	Andrei
1993	Fatal Instinct	Max Shady
	Blink	Thomas Ridgely
1994	Confessions of a Hitman	Bruno Serrano
	Renaissance Man	Captain Tom Murdoch
	Miracle on 34th Street	Jack Duff
1995	The Surgeon	Dr. Benjamin Hendricks
	Boys on the Side	Alex
	Across the Moon	Jim 'Rattlesnake Jim'
	Judge Dredd	Monroe, Block Warlord	Cameo Uncredited
	Wild Bill	Donnie Lonigan
1996	One Good Turn	Simon Jury
	The Quest	Maxie Devine
	The Phantom	Quill
	Robo Warriors	Ray Gibson
1997	Born Bad	Sheriff Larabee
	Mortal Kombat: Annihilation	Lord Raiden
1998	Psycho	Highway Patrolman
1999	Rites of Passage	Frank Dabbo
2000	Blowback	John Matthew Whitman / Schmidt
	What Lies Beneath	Warren Feur
	The Base 2: Guilty as Charged	Lieutenant Colonel Strauss
	Hellraiser: Inferno	Dr. Paul Gregory
	Double Frame	Detective Tim Follett
2001	Guardian	Detective Carpenter
	Dying on the Edge	Jackie James
2003	Fear X	Peter
	Betrayal	Alex Tyler
	2 Fast 2 Furious	U.S. Customs Agent Markham
	Duplex	Chick
	Down with the Joneses	Vic
2004	The Girl Next Door	Hugo Posh
	Blade: Trinity	FBI Agent Ray Cumberland
2007	Ratatouille	Larousse	Voice
2008	Pineapple Express	General Bratt
2009	The Unborn	Gordon Beldon
	2B	Tom Mortlake
	Endless Bummer	Sam Kramer
2010	Gun	Detective Rogers
	Red	Gabriel Singer
2011	The FP	Narrator	Voice
	X-Men: First Class	U.S. General
	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Sideswipe	Voice
	Setup	William Long
	Arena	Agent Sam McCarty / Sam Lord
	Vs	Rickshaw
2012	Django Unchained	'Ace' Speck, Butch Pooch
2013	Horns	Derrick Perrish
2014	Persecuted	John Luther
	Lap Dance	Patrick Moore
2015	The Blackcoat's Daughter	Bill
	Eden	Coach DaFoe
	Unnatural	Martin Nakos
	Papa: Hemingway in Cuba	Santo Trafficante Jr.
2016	Decommissioned	David Marino
	The Dog Lover	Daniel Holloway
	USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage	Rear Admiral William S. Parnell
2017	The Night Watchman	Randall
	The Saint	Arnold Valecross
	Feed	Tom Grey
2018	Speed Kills	Meyer Lansky
	All You Ever Wished For	Gordon Hutton
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	'Ugly Owl' Hoot
2020	Dead Reckoning	Agent Richard Cantrell
2022	The Noel Diary
TBA	Megalopolis		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Hill Street Blues	Cooper	Episode: "Rites of Spring"
1984	The Mystic Warrior	Pesla	Television film
1985	Miami Vice	Robbie Cann	Episode: "Buddies"
1987	The Equalizer	Tremayne	Episode: "High Performance"
	The Hitchhiker	Ron	Episode: "Homebodies"
	Crime Story	Smilin' Jack	Episode: "Blast from the Past"
1989	Desperado: The Outlaw Wars	John Sikes	Television film
1990	Kojak: None So Blind	Wolfgang Reiger
	Night Visions	Sergeant Thomas Mackey
1991	Session Man	McQueen
	Tales from the Crypt	Red Buckley	Episode: "Dead Wait"
	Brotherhood of the Gun	Frank Weir	Television film
1992	Strangers	Bernard
	Indecency	Mick Clarkson
1996	Cutty Whitman	Cutty Whitman
1997	Total Security	Frank Cisco	13 episodes
1998	Inferno	Dr. Coleman West	Television film
1999	Walker, Texas Ranger	Keith Bolt	Episode: "The Principal"
2000	18 Wheels of Justice	Mitch Davis / "Gabriel"	Episode: "Wages of Sin"
2000-2001	The Huntress	Tiny Bellows	28 episodes
2001	Nash Bridges	Mark Lee Page	Episode: "Fair Game"
	7th Heaven	James Carver	2 episodes
	Strong Medicine	Guy Falls	Episode: "Systemic"
	The X-Files	Professor Josef Kobold	Episode: "Dæmonicus"
	Justice League	Lead Manhunter	2 episodes Voice
2001–2004	Sex and the City	Richard Wright	12 episodes
2002	The Twilight Zone	Alois Hitler	Episode: "Cradle of Darkness"
	Third Watch	Det. Madjanski	4 episodes
2003	Peacemakers	Cole Hawkins	Episode: "Legend of the Gun"
	Without a Trace	Lucas Vohland	Episode: "Confidence"
2004	The Grid	Hudson "Hud" Benoit	Miniseries
	The Survivors Club	Roan Griffin	Television film
	Ike: Countdown to D-Day	Gen. Omar Bradley
	Meltdown	Colonel Boggs
2005	Battlestar Galactica	Meier	2 episodes
2005–2006	Justice League Unlimited	Hawkman, Shadow Thief	2 episodes Voices
2006	CSI: Miami	Capt. Quentin Taylor	Episode: "Open Water"
	Thief	Agent Patterson	Miniseries
2006–2007	Eli Stone	Salinsky	Episode: "Praying for Time"
	Jericho	Jonah Prowse	5 episodes
2006–2008	The Batman	Black Mask	3 episodes Voice
2006–2013	Dexter	Harry Morgan	96 episodes
2007	Sharpshooter	Dillon	Television film
2009	The Unit	Reece	Episode: "Hero"
	Criminal Minds	Tom Benton	Episode: "Demonology"
	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Walter Hardy	Episode: "Opening Night" Voice
	The Christmas Hope	Mark Addison	Television film
2009–2010	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Harvey Dent / Two-Face	2 episodes Voice
	Ben 10: Alien Force	Vilgax, Additional Voices	7 episodes
2010	D.R.E.A.M. Team	Shawn Murphy	Television film
	Numb3rs	Randall Priest	Episode: "Arm in Arms"
	FlashForward	James Ermine	Episode: "Blowback"
	The Vampire Diaries	Giuseppe Salvatore	2 episodes
	Private Practice	Gibby	Episode: "Playing God"
2011	Human Target	Warden Cole	Episode: "Warden Cole"
	Hawaii Five-0	Elliott Connor	Episode: "Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau"
	Young Justice	Joar Mahkent / Icicle Sr., Wilcox	Episode: "Terrors" Voices
	Pound Puppies	Sarge	Episode: "The K9 Kid" Voice
2011–2012	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien	Vilgax	5 episodes Voice
2012	Hatfields & McCoys	Joe Hatfield	Miniseries
2013–2014	Beware the Batman	Mr. Reese / Silver Monkey	3 episodes Voice
	The Legend of Korra	Tonraq	14 episodes Voice
	Grey's Anatomy	James Evans	6 episodes
	Wilfred	Henry Newman	5 episodes
2014	From Dusk till Dawn: The Series	Ray Gecko	Episode: "Boxman"
2014–2015	State of Affairs	Syd Vaslo	9 episodes
2016	The Shannara Chronicles	Cephalo	7 episodes
2017	Gotham	Frank Gordon	3 episodes
2017	NCIS: Los Angeles	Admiral Sterling Bridges	3 episodes
	The Path	Kodiak	9 episodes
2018–2021	Black Lightning	Peter Gambi	58 episodes Main role
2018–2019	Magnum P.I.	Captain Buck Greene	3 episodes
2019	The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants	Additional Voices	2 episodes Uncredited
	Animal Kingdom	Detective Andre	4 episodes
	City on a Hill	Richy Ryan	5 episodes Recurring role[26]
2021	Creepshow	Raymond Bateman	Episode: "Skeletons in the Closet"
	The Rookie	Tom Bradford	Episode: "Breakdown"[22]

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2005	The Warriors	Ajax
2010	Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame	Harvey Dent / Two-Face
2011	Killzone 3	Captain Jason Narville
2014	Destiny	Executor Hideo, New Monarchy Merchant[27]
2017	Destiny 2	Executor Hideo
2022	Destiny 2: The Witch Queen	Executor Hideo

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2007	Saturn Award	Best Supporting Television Actor	Dexter	Nominated
2009	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Shared with Preston Bailey, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Valerie Cruz, Kristin Dattilo, Michael C. Hall, Desmond Harrington, C. S. Lee, Jason Manuel Olazabal, David Ramsey, Christina Robinson, Jimmy Smits, Luna Lauren Velez and David Zayas		Nominated
2010		Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Shared with Preston Bailey, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Brando Eaton, Courtney Ford, Michael C. Hall, Desmond Harrington, C. S. Lee, John Lithgow, Rick Peters, Christina Robinson, Luna Lauren Velez and David Zayas		Nominated
2011		Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Shared with Jennifer Carpenter, April Lee Hernández, Michael C. Hall, Desmond Harrington, Maria Doyle Kennedy, C. S. Lee, Jonny Lee Miller, Julia Stiles, Luna Lauren Velez, Peter Weller and David Zayas		Nominated
2012	San Diego Film Critics Society Award	Best Ensemble Performance Shared with Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Jonah Hill, Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Zoë Bell, Don Johnson, Walton Goggins and Bruce Dern	Django Unchained	Nominated
	Saturn Award	The Life Career Award	—	Won
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Shared with Billy Brown, Jennifer Carpenter, Josh Cooke, Aimee Garcia, Michael C. Hall, Colin Hanks, Desmond Harrington, Rya Kihlstedt, C. S. Lee, Edward James Olmos, Luna Lauren Velez and David Zayas	Dexter	Nominated
2013	Gold Derby Award	Ensemble Cast Shared with Dennis Christopher, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Walton Goggins, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson, Christoph Waltz and Kerry Washington	Django Unchained	Nominated
2014	Behind the Voice Actors Award	People's Choice Voice Acting Award Shared with Janet Varney, Dee Bradley Baker, David Faustino, P.J. Byrne, J. K. Simmons, Mindy Sterling, Seychelle Gabriel, Aubrey Plaza, Aaron Himelstein, John Michael Higgins, Adrian LaTourelle, Richard Riehle and Lisa Edelstein	The Legend of Korra	Won
		Television Voice Acting Award Shared with Janet Varney, Dee Bradley Baker, David Faustino, P.J. Byrne, J. K. Simmons, Mindy Sterling, Seychelle Gabriel, Aubrey Plaza, Aaron Himelstein, John Michael Higgins, Adrian LaTourelle, Richard Riehle and Lisa Edelstein		Nominated
	Prism Award	Male Performance in a Drama Series Multi-Episode Storyline	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated

References

Sources

• Kipp, Jeremiah (Fall 2001). "The Quiet Cool of a Gypsy Actor: An Interview with James Remar". Shock Cinema. No. 19. p. 3-8.

External links

• James Remar at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] James Remar

William James Remar (* 31. Dezember 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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[es] James Remar

William James Remar (Boston, Massachusetts; 31 de diciembre de 1953) es un actor estadounidense de cine, teatro y televisión.

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[ru] Ремар, Джеймс

Джеймс Рема́р (англ. James Remar, род. 31 декабря 1953) — американский харáктерный актёр. Появлялся в кино, компьютерных играх и телевизионных шоу. Получил наибольшую известность за роли бойфренда героини Ким Кэттролл в популярном сериале «Секс в большом городе», Гарри Моргана в сериале «Декстер» и агента ЦКЗ в сериале «За гранью», а также Рэйдена во второй части кинематографической франшизы Mortal Kombat.

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